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Congratulations to our board members who have appeared in the Herald News recently: Michael Huff, named a Governor’s Scholar; Nina Cundiff, elected 2010-2012 Fourth District Vice-Governor for the Kentucky Federation of Women’s Clubs. Also, great picture of Leah Carter with some of the Lincolns a couple of weeks back.

The LaRue County Relay for Life is May 14 at Hodgenville Elementary School. This is the fifth and final in a series of cancer survivor stories to bring awareness to this cause.

“Cancer is the one word no parent wants to hear and no one should have to go through,” said Linda Long. But when Todd and Linda heard the diagnosis last fall for their second-grade daughter Ashley, reality set in for the young family.

Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Park recently was voted the top historic landmark to visit in Kentucky.

Kentucky Living magazine included the park in its “Best in Kentucky” April issue. The site dedicated to Lincoln’s Kentucky years draws about 200,000 visitors annually to the Sinking Spring and Knob Creek Farms both outside Hodgenville.

The 16th President’s homestead beat out second-place Mammoth Cave National Park (two million visitors annually) and third-place My Old Kentucky Home in Bardstown (30,000 visitors annually).

The LaRue County Farmers Market is open two afternoons a week until October in the Extension Office parking lot. The market is 2-5:30 p.m. Tuesdays and Fridays. You’ll find a variety of items now such as herbs or other bedding plants, flowers, honey, or early season fresh produce like asparagus. Local beef is also available and grilled hamburgers will be offered on many Fridays.

Even though the last bell of the spring semester will soon sound, summer learning activities abound for LaRue County students.

At Kids Crew, director Stephanie Ash has planned a variety of events and programs. An American Red Cross representative will conduct a swim safety course for school age children on June 3. Each Friday those children will board a bus to LaRue County swimming pool after lunch.

Zipp Duncan, former Elizabethtown High School standout and Kentucky offensive lineman, signed a free agent contract with the Philadelphia Eagles.

Among the 11 undrafted free agents the team announced it had signed, Duncan was one of only three offensive linemen and the only offensive guard.

Duncan, who played tight end and defensive end at Elizabethtown, moved to the offensive line in his redshirt sophomore season at Kentucky. He started 39 straight games on the offensive line and was among the first Wildcat class to appear in four bowl games.

The Kentucky State Police have arrested a man on drug charges who is a suspect in conjunction with a shooting Monday that occurred in the St. Francis and New Hope areas of Nelson and Marion counties

According to a press release from the Columbia post of the KSP, Douglas Hutchins, St. Francis, is a suspect in a shooting that injured Michael Greenwell, 26, around 3 p.m. Monday. Greenwell was transported by EMS from his home in New Hope to the New Hope Fire Department and the flown to University Hospital in Louisville. He is listed in stable condition.

May Friendship Day “Living the Vision” will be held 7 p.m. May 14 at Holy Apostles Anglican Church, 56 Public Square, Elizabethtown. The service focuses on how women can work together to transform communities and the world.

This annual celebration is open to all Christian faiths and is an opportunity to worship together and celebrate the Fellowship of the Least Coin. Donation of a bar of bath-size soap will be collected at the service for the World Service Kit program.